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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
How the Thistle Travels.

There is no weed weedier or more
obiquitious than the common thistle. In
Paradise, it is true, if we may trust John
Milton and the Sunday school books
wise, as usual, beyond what is written
there were no thOrns or thistles; the Gre
alton and introduction of the noxious
tribe upon this once innocent and thorn
less earth being a direct consequence of
the fall of man, and stern retribution
TO Adams delinquency. But since then
the thistle has managed to so difuse it
self over the habitable globe that there
hardly now remains a spot on earth
without its own local representative of
that ever intrusive and conquering genus.
Wherever civilized man goes, there the
thistle accompani him as matter of
course in his various wanderings. 1t
adapts itself to all earthly environments.
Close up to the Artic Circle you find it
defying the indigenous reindeer with its
prickly wings; under an equatorial sky
you may observe it accommodating itself
most complacently, with sardonic
smile, to tropical existence, and battling
with the pricklv cactuses and the thorny
aCacias, to the manor born, for its share
of the dry and arid uplands. Even
nettles are nowhere in competition with
it; in spite of its valuable and irritating
sting, the nettle has not the Elasticity
and adaptability of constitution that
mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe.
Garnered and harvested yearly with the
farmers corn, its seeds have been graf
uitiously distributed by its enemy, man,
in all climates; and, when once it gains
the slightest foothold, its winged down
enables it to diffuse itself I'D infnituns
through the virgin soil of yet I'M
conquered and unthistly continents.
A field of thistle in England itself is a
beautiful sight for the enthusiastic bot
anist (who has usually low opinion of
the agricultural interests; but in the
fresh and fallow earth of New Zealand
they attain a yet more prodigious and
portentious stature, that might well
strike awe and dismay into the stout
heart of a Berkshire farmer.
the fact is, the thistle is-ane- ef-those
bcllicose plants which Specially lay them
selves out, in the struggle for existence,
for the occupat ON of soils where they
are compelled to defend their leaves and
stems from the cons ant attacks of the
larger herbivores. On open planes and
wide steppes, much browsed over in the
wild state by deer or buffalo, and in the
degenerated civilized condition by more
prosaic COWS and donkeys, one may
always note that only the prickliest and
most defensive plants have any chance
of gaining a livelihood. i Grant Allen
in Popular Science M0RtbW
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
The Great Penal Colony.
(From the London Times.)

The number of convicts and exiles
sent to Siberia from Russia itself be-
tween the years 1854 and 1884 was
little short OF million, the cxiles alone
numbering 750, 900. From 1928 to
1882 the number of persons exiled was
SO, 725, from 1858 to 1862 101, 238, and
from 1868 to 1878 146, $50.
The condition of the exiles is very
bad, and, as their sole aim is to get
to Russia, the number of those who get
away Is very large, amounting during
the last twenty years to twenty four per
cent. of the total number of eXiles. In
1877 it was officially stated that, in the
government of Tomsk, out of %, S2S
tXiles 9,726, or more than third, had
fled. So in the government of TObolsk,
out OF 81 .122 eXiles VINO had been sent
there only 81, 2O3 were actually resident
there in 1875. Most of the exiles are i'll
the prime of life, and this renders it all
the more difficult for them to accOmmo-
date themselves to a fresh mode of life.
Women form but fifth of the whole
number of eXiles, and as most of them
are over forty, there is very little chance
of their marrying; while, for the matter
of that, marriage is forbidden during
the first five years of exile. Moreover,
there is little encouragement given the
exiles to settle down into good colon
lists, as the natives take every possible
advantage of them, and the relations be
tween the two divisions of the popula-
ton are very unfriendly. According to
the official statistics, twothirds of the
crimes in Siberia arc committed by
exiles, and this fact seems to have
struck the government at St. Peters
burg and to have been one of the mo-
tives which has led to the formation of
q special committee to inquire into the
whole subject.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
On a S etp!ng Car.

The charges upon sleeping cars have
always been so large that they should
have covered the service of attendants,
as we'll as the use of berth. Yet every
generous minded person has felt under
a moral obligation to fee the porter, be-
cause he knew that the porter's employ
ers gave him so small wages that unless
the passengers came to the rescue, he
would be shamefully underpaid. The
Wisconsin Central Railroad Company
has Just announced a new departure in
this matter. 1t has decided to increase
the pay of the porteas and WATERS EN-
ployed on its sleeping and di ing cars
to an amount which will give them am
pie compensation for their work, and to
prohibit them from receiving tips"
from passengers. Orders have been
issued to them to receive no money from
any passenger, except for backing
shoes, "when requested" to do so, for
which service they are permitted to ac-
cept ten cents. This is practical way
of dealing with the fee problem, and 1t
is the only practical way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
Distinguished Guests at Sing Sing.

l was at Sing Sing few days ago,
and saw Ferdinand Ward, writes New
York correspondent to the Cincinnati
SIN. 1t was while he was at his din
ner of lean pork, beans, potatoes, bread
and coffee. b. works small printing
press when he works at all He shuns
observation and looks nobody in the
face. do not think that Fish can suf-
fer more than Ward from humiliation at
his punishment. He is thin and hag-
gard: mis- breast is sunken; his gait that
of an old man. | saw also Jaehne, the
convicted ''boOdle" Alderman. He has
a pleasant task in distributing tobacco
among the other convicts. Johnny
Hope, the burglar, one of the gang
which robbed the Manhattan Savings
Bank of two million or more Of bonds,
was pointed out to me as a twenty-year
prisoner. He and his friends are SAID
to still hold So, 100, 900 of the bonds,
and demand 5000, 900 in cash for their
return to the institution. Only $780,
900 of these bonds were ever restored.
They belonged to Augustus Schell, and
were recovered through the agency of
the man who subsequently organized
the theft of Stewards body. Johnny
Hope was once regarded as ''the hand
soonest and best dressed man on Broad
way" but he certainly did not look it
in Sing Sing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
Dentistry for Horses.

The practice of dentistry in the case
of horses is certainly a new thing any
where, but in st. Louis it is decidedly
so. For several years it has been used
in the East, but it is only very recently
that DR.. j. c. Kelly introduced the
practice in all its branches in this vicin-
ity. Formerly the equine teeth were
placed in proper order by the use, of the
file. Crooked teeth were Strengthened
and decayed teeth extracted, but now
the latter are receiving the necessary at
tention and a good horse need not suffer
long from bad tooth.
It may seem simple to fill a dccaycd
tooth in horses mouth but when the
horse happens to be valuable one, and
is really suffering from pain, is unable to
cat the proper amount of food, and is
fretful when bit is put in his mouth,
such an operation will place him on his
nominal behavior at once DR.. Kelly
has filled several teeth in the mouths of
different road animals, and has made
success of the undcrtaklng.--ISt. Louis
Critic,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
A Deed of HerOiSm.


The Herald and PresJyter tells this
story: Lulu Carpenter, twelve years
old, was mortally hurt in t e terrible
cyclone at SAuk Rapids, Mimi, last
spring.
She had fled from the storm, but went
back after her baby sister, and was
caught and transfxed by huge splinter
that pierced through her body. Her
first words when her grandfather found
her thus. were:
II am dying, but l saved the baby"
The poor girl fingered day or two
IN delirium, and her last words were:
Don't be afraid, Susy; nothing shall
hurt you; Lulu will take care of you
Don't be afraid ~
How many other acts of heroism were
done In that awful storm no one but
God Himself knows. Such deeds are
surely recorded on high.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
The TIllie Smith Monument.

A design by Sculptor R. Schmid for a
monument to Tillie Smith has been ac
cepted by the committee in Hacketts-
town, N. j. The plaster cast is now in
New York. On a granite base will
stand bronze figure of the heroine who
sacrificed her life in defence of her
honor. At her back will rise tate
white cross. The figure of the girl is a
trifle more than six feet tall, and the
whole monument will be about thirty
feet high. The sculptor designed the
cross to be of white marble, but it may
have to be of iron, if there is not money
enough raised to make it of marble.
Tie heroine is represented as being
forced backward. With her left hand
she grasps q serpent, and with her
right hand she presses to her head
myrtle crown. The upturned face looks
to the cross. The figure is drapped.
This monument will cost more money
than has been pledged to pay for it, and
Mr.. Schmid proposes to place the plas-
ter cast on exhibition to add to the
monument fund.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06

news of the capture with his wonted
sclemnity. HIS crown was neatly and
firmly settled on his head, as if he never
meant to remove it. 1t looked as if it
might have grown there.
"Why this unseemly uproar in the
realm2' cried Heywode, entering into
the spirit or the fun, to cover Miss
Young's confusion.
THE cutting of the ring ca has been
too long deferred, replied his Majesty.
Moreover, it has disappeared. Our
commands are that it be produced, sew
cred, and distributed at once"
The cake indeed could not be found,
and the courtiers were ON the highroad
toward accusing Harold and Rosamund
of having eaten it, ring and all, when
Mrs. Barkley hustled in with many
apologies, and calmed the tumult with
word.
Il locked it up myself" said the
worthy lady, and she managed in passing
to whisper few words to Miss Young.
Rosamund in her turn conveyed some
mysterious intelligenceto Miss Stanislas,
who was elected to cut the cake. What
it was all about who shall say? But
either Judge Wesley John was in rare
luck, or there was a secret and illegal
mark on that cake known only to the
initiated, in which case there were GER
tainly three conspirators, One thing
remains. Mr.. John got the ring.
All eyes then turned ON Rosamund,
for it seemed to have been agreed by all
that she was the lady of his choice. The
surprise was therefore great when, with
regal pomp and circumstance, the King
conferred it on his Queen.
1t was ring of twisted silver, shaped
like a lovers knot. Miss Stanislas re-
ceived it very prettily, and 1 may as
we'll make long story short, and say at
once that she wore it on the third finger of
her left hand, where few months alter
ward it was replaced by heavy we'd
ding band of gold.
Whether in the solitude of her fine
mansion, when the servants are out, and
Judge Johns clients are not nigh, she
has ever taught her husband the mazur-
ka q Ia pol0Raise, l cannot tell. | think
myself 1t is more than likely she has at
least made the attempt. Ifeel it no less
sure that with dignified demeanor he
has been able to resi- t her wiles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
A Corpse, but no Pauper.

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, an aged widow,
once quite well to d ', and residing all
her life at Tuckahoe. was taken to the
Westchester County Almshouse and died
in the carriage which landed her at the
door. Instead of being received there
as a pauper she was carried in a corpse.
The old lady wept all the way to the
Almshouse, and prayed that death
might overtake her before she became a
pauper. Her prayer was answered ut
the very threshold. When the carriage
stopped at the great door which is
opened to so many unfortunates, she
looked out of the carriage window, gave
a shrek. threw up her hands, and fell
over dead. She died of shock and ex-
citement. N. Y, Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
Advertising Rates
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
A Big Steer.

The biggest steer in the Chicago Live
Stock Show was owned by Fowler ~
Van Natta, ofFowler, Ind. He is three
quarters Hereford, weighs ?, 500 pounds,
and has Il girth of nine feet ten inches.
The man who takes care of the big beast
SAYS that he has made gain of 1. so
pounds per day since his birth on May
"a, 1889. Aside from his great weight
and height this steer would attract at
tention almost everywhere. His huge
but symmetrical frame is covered with
beautiful hide, the splashes Of white and
brown being thrown together with crazy
quilt disorder His great spreading
horns look like long tapering bars Of
smoked pearl, with dash of ivory here
and there. while his little stout legs are
indicative of the enormous strength
which the beast possesses. The steer
has not yet attained its full growth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
The Pennies.

A mother gave her little boy two
bright, new pennies and asked him what
he was going to do with them. After
a moments thought the child replied:
81 am going to give one to the mission
aries and with the other | am going to
buy stick of candy" After awhile ne
returned from his play and told his
mother he had los one of the pennies,
(which did you losel" she a ked. 81
lost the missionary penny, he promptly
replied. How many grown people are
like that little boy Richmond Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
A California Ranch.

'Lucky" Baldwins Santa Anita
ranch, stretches away across a great
level plain, green as an emerald
the year round, as far as the eye can see.
1t is bounded only by the mountains
which wall in the valley, and it COM
prises almost every variety of land,
from the rich sandy loam-which pro
duces the finest oranges-to the rolling
foothills, which are given up to sheep
pasture.
1t was In 1875, just after he had
made a successful deal in Ophir mining
stock-the last great deal made in the
Comstock-by which he cleared seven
million dollars that Mr.. Baldwin pur-
chased the Santa Anita ranch. 1t then
comprised only 10000 acres. Since
that time he has bought the San Fran
cisquito, La Puente, La Merced, Patrero
Chico, La Clenega and other tracts or
ranches, aggregating 40, 600 acres now
included in his Santa Anita ranch By
January /, 1881, he had secured a clear
title to this immense estate, and ever
since then he has expended for improve
ments the total income of the ranch
and an additional sum of So, coo per
month. He has added seventy acres to
the orange groves, planting them with
the Washington or seedless orange, the
choicest and most expensive variety
known. The old vineyard has been in
creased by five hundred acres and
planted with the choicest varieties of
wine grapes. There are sixty acres in
English walnuts and almost countless
acres of almonds, figs, peaches, pears,
apples, apricOts, pomegranates and
every other known variety of fruit. He
sows $4,000 acres of wheat every
year and has a flock of 81, 600 sheep.
Take into consideration the corn, barley
and other grains which are raised for
the support of the stock, ETC., and you
may obtain faint idea of the enormous
amount and variety of the products of
Santa Anita. This ranch is a principal
ity, not unlike a Southern plantation
before the war, save that here all the
laborers are contented, well-paid, we'll
fed and well-housed. There are about
800 men constantly on the pay roll and,
strangest of all in this part of the coun-
trv, not over dozen Cinnamon are in
cluded in the number.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06

H1GuToNED. The Sheriffs of England
arc taken from gentlemen residing in a
county who are supposed to be rich.
The selection is arbitrary although it
sometimes happens that some wealthy
snob who has just settled in the county
announces his readiness to serve) and
the expense, which averages about
81, 800, is sometimes heavy tax upon
the unlucky gentlemen who are pushed
into the honor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06

HER CATCH.
Oh. she's going to marry lord,
Yum yum
Her heart she will bury,
His debts are large, very;
And down with the dust she must come,
Come, come
But still he is brimming with glee,
For American girls round sum
Some, some
Will pay for blue blooded bum,
Bum, bum.
For love is not vital
Compared to a title,
And happy hope she will be.
-R11nbleY
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06

THE SlNeERs.-Speaking of the diff
ticulty of obtaining good male voices
Dave Wambold says the best among
English speaking people are to be found
among Cornwall miners or the York
shire men in England. 1t was from
among them that all the best singers he
brought out at the old San Francisco
MInstrels were obtained,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06

A progress Of constructing mirrors up-
on which old impressions can be repro
duced at will at any time, is said to have
been discovered by two French scien-
fists The secret is said to be the pccu-
liar action of light upon the metal scleni-
mn fortified by aid of electricity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
A BATCH OF STRAY JOKES
GATHERED IN FROM ALL QUAR-
TIERS FOR ONE TO SMILE OVER.

How He Saved-He Confused Hi'
WHEELER Catch Dried Beef In
Lawyers Omce-A Life SRver-Odds
and Ends, ETC., Etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-20

short distance below was an eagle roost at
which the birds gathered at nightfall from an
area of hundred miles more.
"At Rock Haven, KY, the hydraulic cement
has been produced extensively. The product
has been tested in competition with the best, and
1t has good reputation Opportunities for
working the Harrison county cement are equally
good. Tobacco Landing was intended by some
speculative person to be one OF the important
trading posts on the river. Some brother of Col.
Mulberry Sellers, with enlarged ideas of the
almighty dollar, came and viewed the land.
Warehouses and other appointments sra pre-
pared sufficient for the transaction Of all the
business of the neiehboring region. Trade would
not come. Its chief notoriety now, as 1t waits
for something to turn up, is that it was the boy
hood home Of the noted traveller and author, j.
Ross Browne. Here his mind was turned to an
appreciation of natural scenes of beauty by tho
outlook over the knobs of the beautiful Ohio,
which here circled in a broad sweep around this
promontory. The scene comprises many miles
OF hill, river and valley. Away beyond. in Ken
lucky, the Muldraugh range of hills tower up,
while six great sharp mountain-like knobs, the
result of past erosive energy, seem to pierce the
blue vault. Brownies favorite haunt the
dark chasm of Falling Spring brook. I is a
poets walk. The walls are precipitous, of
banded limestone. over three hundred feet high.
A wild growth of native plants and feathery
ferns flourish on the shaded benches and coves.
Each escarped band of rock in the vernal season
is testooned with trailing creepers' and clinging
lichens. while the steep face of Douglas Pin
nacle' would stir n boy to romance. In kind re-
membrance of his favorite haunt, this place is
now known as Ross Brownies Gulch.'"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-20
Indoor and Ont.

"My souvenir of the coal strike" said the mis-
tress of cozy little fat as she noted glance
of curiosity toward tho stiletto that after the
fashion of such offensive weapons nowadays was
thrust peacefully through the coils Of her hair.
eyes, it is set with black diamonds, genuine
ones" she went on, she dropped the bauble to-
ward which my eyes still wandered into my out
stretched hand. at was my favor at the ger
man one night last week. It looked then as if
we were never likely to SEQ coal in any larger
Jumps, and so the lady OF the house gave us
everyone q coal jewel. scarf pin for the men,
breast-pin. rings and hair ornaments for the
women. Mine. You see, quite coal chip" 1t was
a coal chip. indeed, broken roughly from lump
of anthracite and with the care that is usually
bestowed on diamonds Of a different color. Not
beautiful decidedly, but quite the reverse. Its
owner will keep the coai-studded stiletto as a
memento Of an experience through which the
oftener New York passes the worse for the city.
The earliest bonnets that the French miliners
are beginning to send samples of what We
are to expect the coming season afford little en-
couragement to the woman who would fain Sc
lect her headgear with any reference to the gen
uine protection it might and ought to afford!
Horseshoe, pointed and gabled crowns are still
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-20
Appearances Don't Govern.

have ies about concluded arter fggerin quite spell
That appearances don't govern and that blood don't
alus tell
Sometimes the shaller plown will raise the biggest
Gran;
An it amt the tallest maple alus runs the sweetest
sap,
1t amt the richest rankest grass the cattle likes the
best
faint likely all the eggs find, is the hens that
made the nest,
The talIest stalk that grows in my twenty
field
Amt got nubbn on it, any sign o yield,
The kelest apple tree that stands in my neighbour
orchard lot.
Is full blossoms ever spring but the fruit is
to rot,
While the crooked, ornery seedlin' standn outside
in the road,
Comes up smlin' ever season with heapin' wagon
load.
The largest sheep O. all the flock, may grow the
coarsest WOOL
The finest boss upon the farm may balk before
he'll pull:
The scrubbiest boss upon the track may win the long
est heat,
While the that has the 5ackn may be the easiest
beat,
The sweetest drink ever took drunk from out a
gourd.
The deepest warter in the creek is es above the ford
So I've about concluded after fggerin' quite SPELL
That appearances don't govern, an that blood dont
alus tell
w. w. Pfrimmer. in kentland Gazette.